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Needs/Want List
Quelab is a volunteer non-profit organization - member dues pay the bills. That also means that anything & everything in the space was hard won, whether bought with with those dues (anything left after the rent, etc.), donated by members & non-members, or scrounged about! Any assistance appreciated!
Equipment - Large
- Large volume air compressor
- Air compressor accessories
- Nail guns - brad nailer, pin nailer, framing nailer
- Accessories for compressed air system- black pipe or the like to plumb the building with compressed air
- SawStop table saw
- Panel Saw
- Powder Coating Setup (sprayer, materials) $75
- Powder Coating Oven (could start with an actual oven) $???
- small Sandblasting Cabinet $120 - $210
- Nicer Solder Stations
- Dust collection system accessories - blast gates, hoses, ground wires, a large cyclone or several small DIY cyclones
Equipment - Small
- Kreg Pocket Hole Jig
- Pocket hole screws
- Pocket hole plugs
- CO2 Fire Extinguishers (2)
- Dust mop - the large flat one that the workers use at Wal-mart, but only 2 or 3 feet wide; so much of the space is tiled, this will come in handy.
- small recycling bins - the blue ones that many offices have by the desk-side trash cans. These would be for the same thing here: so people can drop recycling in the room they are, rather than having to walk multiple rooms away to toss something in the big recycling bins in the Core
- small trash cans for west end of space
- decent multimeters
- A modern ossiloscope
Everyday Supplies
These are the consumables - things that regularly need replenished. We may have plenty on hand, we may not, you might want to check to see what is most needed.
- Paper Towels
- Toilet Paper
- Soda
- Bottled Water
- Plastic ware - spoons, forks, knives
- Paper plates
- Napkins
- 4' fluorescent bulbs for the many light fixtures in the space
- OR LED bulbs or new LED fixtures
- 13 gallon trash bags
Monthly Intangibles
These are just some examples; feel free to volunteer others!
- Sponsor Our Utilities for a Month $200
- Help us weatherize our space $150
- gas on for 3 months $350
- Subsidize Insurance Coverage $116
- Monthly Drinks Kitty $30
- Grounds Maintenance 3 hours
- Room Curator 3 hours
Miscellaneous
- Sheet foam insulation - to insulate the metal garage door in the warehouse space. Either rigid blue or pink, or even the shiny-one-side stuff. It's a large door, so several sheets will be needed.
- Shelves - always need shelves, tool shelves, bookshelves, etc.
- Cameras, RFID, Biometrics
- Lamps, desktop, Floor based, Clip style.
- power strips